Weirdly, sitting with those habits changes everything. Our minds are like a muddy pond — if you stop stirring it, the mud settles, and then you can see the bottom. That “bottom” is wisdom — the insight that everything’s empty of inherent nature. But that’s a topic for the next post.

My point in sharing this was just to say if beginning a meditation practice feels hard, that’s because it is the most challenging obstacle to overcome. It’s like going to the gym for the first time, it sucks and you hate it and then you’re sore after. But as you go more it becomes easier and eventually you even look forward to it.

Meditation has the power to show you that those thoughts and habits can change. It gives you a space between old automatic response and the response you want to have. The first step is just starting to practice.

If you’re an anxious over-thinker, you’re a pro at meditating - just not controlling what you’re meditating on.

You may not be sitting criss cross apple sauce in a cave, but you can meditate. Anyone with a mind can do it. Over the next 7 weeks of this meditation teacher training I want to share with you the whys and hows to starting a meditation practice. I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for meditation and I am honored to study it more in depth. Even more so I hope to give the knowledge shared with me to anyone who needs to hear it <3

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